ArticleBMC cancer2025
Breast cancer survivors' participation in social activities five years after primary surgery - are there social inequalities?
Article in BMC cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundTo date, the social participation of breast cancer survivors has mainly been studied in terms of their return to work, while long-term studies on participation in social activities are rare. Against this backdrop, we analyze the influence of socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors on breast cancer survivors' social activities on average five years following first surgery. Furthermore, we identify social subgroups that are most affected by low levels of social activities, taking long-term breast cancer-related complaints into account.
methodsThe study population is based on a multicenter longitudinal study on return to work after breast cancer. We used data of a third follow-up study with n = 372 breast cancer survivors, corresponding to a response rate of 81.9% with regard to the first sample. Participation in social activities comprises the dimensions of 'sociocultural participation', 'social participation in institutions' and 'social participation in the private sphere'. Logistic regression analyses and CHAID decision tree analyses were applied to analyze the influence of socioeconomic factors (school education, income and occupational position), sociodemographic factors (age, marital status, labor force participation and migration status) and the number of cancer-related complaints on social participation.
resultsFive years after the primary surgery, younger survivors (≤ 61 years) with a high number of breast cancer-related complaints showed the greatest limitations in 'social participation in the private sphere'. Marital status, labor force participation and migration status were of less importance in all the dimensions of social participation considered. By contrast, all socioeconomic factors proved to be significantly associated with sociocultural participation. In particular, women with a low household income with more than two breast cancer-related complaints were identified as a vulnerable group in terms of low sociocultural participation.
conclusionsWe found evidence of social inequalities in participation in social activities among breast cancer survivors. Our results indicate that a comprehensive assessment of social participation and early intervention are required to prevent long-term limitations in social activities, especially in socially disadvantaged breast cancer survivors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.